Career
After school she went to New York and had a professional acting training. Before, she had a modern dance training in Munich. At the age of fifteen, she got a role in the soap opera.
Vanessa played the contract role of Lena Wagenfeld until the show got canceled one year later.
In 2005, she took over the role of Jana von Lahnstein in the soap opera Verbotene Liebe and stayed with the show for three years. Leaving in February 2008.
A year later, Vanessa took the recurring role of Karla Müller in the telenovela Sturm der Liebe. In August 2010, the actress appeared in Marienhof for a three-episode-stint as Elvira Schnier.